Frosted Sugar Cookie
Southern Tier Brewing Company

 

 

I hope the kitchen sink liked this more than I did but probably not, even an inanimate object would be repulsed by this foul concoction.

Southern Tier Brewing Co. "Frosted Sugar Cookie"
12 fl. oz. brown glass bottle "BEST BY 10/03/24 LKW 23276 145148". Sampled on 04/07/24
$2.33 @ Wegmans, King of Prussia, PA

Notes via stream of consciousness: I would be a fool to even consider that this was possibly made without artificial flavors but I'll check the label anyway. Yep, it reads "ALE WITH NATURAL FLAVOR", and "MADE WITH MILK SUGAR". It's poured a mostly clear deep-golden/amber colored body beneath a finger's width of white foam. The aroma is sweet with vanilla and sugar over a bready, cake-like maltiness. As I'm familiar with it, this is obviously Amoretti's "Birthday Cake" flavoring. It smells good! On to the taste... well it tastes good as well. There's clear vanilla, a kind of cream soda thing going on, and perhaps some caramel, toffee, and butter. It tastes like you soaked a piece of heavily iced vanilla cake in a glass of beer. The real question, however, is - "is it too sweet"? I don't think so. It's clearly a dessert beer so some sweetness is expected, and although I'm only about a quarter of the way through it's not building on my palate. Perhaps the 8.6% alcohol by volume has something to do with that. In the mouth it's medium-full, or perhaps even full in body, and gently crisp and then smooth. If dessert beers are your thing, this one is a winner.
Review #8,951

12oz bottle poured into SA glass

A- pours a clear golden color with a one finger get foamy white head that reduces to a thin film

S- plenty of vanilla on the aroma, reminiscent if a cream soda. There’s also a sugary cookie dough element as well as a hint of caramel

T- very sweet up front with a blast of vanilla immediately followed by cream soda at the mid-palate. Sweet notes of caramel as as some doughy sweet malt, the finish gives sweet cream soda and vanilla

M- medium body with medium carbonation, foamy mouthfeel and finish, abv hidden well

 

Received a gift bottle from a friend 2-13-23. Best by 9-21-23; consumed 2-24-24.

Beer poured orange with a pretty good white head with the original pour.

Nose is really nice, like opening a fresh box of sugar cookies.

Taste is a sweet malt base in which the result is a sugar cookie. I am torn how to rate this because the brewing team nailed it but it is too too sweet.

Mouthfeel is medium bodied and pretty smooth.

Overall the brewing team has nailed down the sugar cookie in the form of a beer, nicely done. If you have a major sweet tooth, this beer is for you!

Poured from a 12-oz bottle into a pint glass.

Look: Dark golden with a 1" fluffy white head that lingered, leaving a foam ring and considerable lacing.

Nose: Frosted sugar cookie — very sweet — with a bit of alcohol.

Mouthfeel: Medium thick, adequate carbonation.

Attack: Sugar, alcohol, cinnamon — way too sweet for me.

Finish: Just a bit of bitterness, the way-too-sweet lingers, but the alcohol warms.

Overall: I get it that some people may like this, but I can't drink any more of it. It's cloyingly sweet. Southern Tier makes some wonderful specialty brews, and I have terrific respect for the brewery, but this one — I hate to say it — is a drain pour for me. I can see why the retailer, where it was initially listed for $15.99 a four-pack, had it discounted to $3.99 a four-pack. I had to try it.

Poured into a wide mouth, grip shaped goblet: color is gold, slight chill haze, head is off white with fine bubbles, head presents maybe 1/4 inch thick, lingers with a solid top and some spotty lacing.

Smell is sweet vanilla, cream soda, light bread/biscuit, sweet sugar and candied frosting.

Taste is more of this with big vanilla, sweet cream soda, bread, biscuit, sugar, no real hop qualities.

Mouthfeel is low carbonation, strong sweetness, drying from strength.

Overall a big beer that hits the marks of its intended flavor spin - quite sweet and like an overdone cream soda with lingering icing sweetness.

They managed to make a beer that tastes like sugar cookies. They delivered what they promised.
Obviously not a pound a few in a row type but for a novelty beer it was a fun one to try

L - Golden with a creamy white head that dissipates relatively quickly, leaving behind a slight amount of lacing and a thin cap
S - Sweet sugar and lactose, vanilla, cinnamon - a good amount of malt
T - Follows the nose - a sweet bomb - sugar, lactose, and vanilla up front and throughout intermixed well. Slight honey. Maybe some nutmeg? Very sweet.
F - medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Soft
O - A nice, if gimmicky holiday ale that definitely tastes like a sugar cookie - however, it's clear this is the same base utilized in the Pumking series as well as their Vanilla Scoop ale - so it's hard not to taste those beers in this one as well, which, at least to me, cheapens the beer. I do enjoy this beer and it has its place, but of the series, this one is my least favorite as it seems the least nuanced

Very sweet. Almost too sweet. Tasty though.

 

 

 

 

12oz bottle Best by 10/02/24 poured into a tulip pint glass at fridge temp 8.6% ABV per label. The beer pours bright medium amber in color with light khaki colored head. The head recedes to a thin ring and island. No lacing. The aroma is vanilla with a hint of fruit and malt. The taste is uber sweet vanilla imposing itself on a nondescript malt base. No bitterness. Mouthfeel is sticky, cloying full bodied with less than average carbonation and a thoroughly undry finish. The 8.6% ABV is largely obscured by the tremendous amount of sugar lingering. Overall, true in advertising, but not something I can handle 12 ounces of...

Not a fan of the cloying sweetness, the packaging indicates the flavors in this beer are natural but they are overwhelmingly sweet to the point of being artificial. I put a drop of bitters in the beer in my glass, it somewhat helped but the aftertaste is still that artificial gross taste. These will be handed out there is no way I can’t drink it.

 

Too sweet